By the time his term ends in January, President Donald Trump will leave behind a country deeply torn in ways that weren’t so apparent before he became president, and a new poll by USAToday/Suffolk University reflects this, showing that at least 50 percent of Americans believe history will view him as a “failed” president.

The survey, conducted as his presidency slowly draws to a close, highlights the risks of the actions he’s considering on his way out, USAToday reports. Americans are overwhelmingly against the idea of him pardoning himself, believing this definitely constitutes an abuse of power, and an even larger majority (including most Republicans) say he should attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration to peacefully demonstrate the transfer of power.

Trump hasn’t said whether he will attend the January 20 inauguration, but on Wednesday, he pardoned former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner, the father of Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, and White House officials say he is considering pardons for himself and his family. Tuesday he issued a pile of pardons and commutations (20 of them), and more are expected. And in the days following the election, he’s fruitlessly sought ways to overturn the results, continually making baseless claims of voter fraud.

For many voters, this isn’t particularly a good look.

“The last four years have been lacking in compassion and empathy, lacking in anything other than advancing the personal interests of President Trump and his friends and allies and family,” said Babette Salus, 60, a retired attorney and Biden supporter based in Springfield Illinois, who took part in the survey. “There have probably been worse presidents, (but) I’m not sure there’s been a worse one in my lifetime.”

The poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters and took place between December 16 and 20 and has a margin of error plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

When asked how history will judge Trump’s presidency, only 16 percent predicted he’ll be judged as a great president, 13 percent said he will be judged a good president, while 16 percent said he’d be judged as a fair president. A whopping 50 percent said he’d be judged as a failed president. Five percent said they were undecided.

Some felt Trump may be looked on more favorably over time.

“I’ll tell you what, 50 years out, Trump will be much better regarded than he is at the current time,” said David Cheff, 73, a Trump voter based in Jacksonville, Florida. As years go by, he believes “Trump will look decent, for sure.”

Well, maybe. But at least one voter thinks Trump will be remembered as something like an aberration.

“He had half the people loving him and half the people wanting him,” said Arsh Ganjoo, 19, a Biden voter from Great Falls Virginia who’s in his sophomore year at the University of Texas. “I think he will be taught in history classes and regarded as more of an anomaly rather than, you know, a great president.”

Indeed there’s a decidedly stark contrast between Trump’s ratings and former president Barack Obama’s, himself deeply controversial when he left office four years ago. At that time, a USAToday/Suffolk Poll found that half of all Americans said history will view Obama positively, with 18 percent calling him a great president and 32 percent saying he was a good one. Only 23 percent considered him a failed president.

But the bad news is that many Republicans still esteem him highly.

A whopping 70 percent of Americans (as opposed to 26 percent) say it’s time for Trump to concede the election now that the Electoral College has voted. Republicans, however, aren’t on board with this apparently, and 57 percent believe he shouldn’t concede. Only 37 percent believe he should.

And the reason this isn’t good news is that it gives him considerable standing to lead the GOP by its collective nose in the coming years. But interestingly enough, many don’t think he’ll be the party’s nominee in 2024 — only 48 think he may be the nominee in four years, while 35 percent say he won’t.

The problematic issue here is that while Trump’s continual attacks on the election have failed in courts, just enough seeds of doubt about its legitimacy have been sown. This is surprising since Republican and Democratic officials in battleground states have all found that the election was conducted with fairness and honesty.

Overall, 62 percent of Americans, as opposed to 37 percent say Biden was elected legitimately. But a troubling third of the electorate, including 78 percent of Republicans, believe Biden’s win wasn’t legitimate, and this is something that may come to haunt us down the road. Especially since Biden is assuming office as the pandemic continues and the economy is in shambles.

That’s what four years of Trump has handed him. I sure don’t envy Biden right now. He’s far braver than I am, and obviously, he’s going to have to put up with a lot of Republican nonsense, thanks to those who think Trump was treated badly.